MANILA, July 9 (Xinhua) -- An 11-year-old girl died while six others went missing in a flash flood in Cebu province in the central Philippines, local officials said Tuesday.
Roger Suico, chief of the disaster reduction and management office of Carmen town, where the accident occurred around 5 p.m. local time Monday, said the victims were among the 17 people traveling on a pick-up truck swept away into a creek after a heavy downpour.
He said rescuers saved 10 people and recovered the body of the girl Monday night some 5 km from the accident site. Six people remain missing, including a newlywed couple and a pregnant woman.
Initial investigation showed that the group attended a wedding in a resort and were heading back to their village when their truck drove through the flooded road and swept into a swollen roadside creek.
"The driver miscalculated thinking the truck could pass through the flooded road," Suico said.
In a social media post on Tuesday, Carmen Mayor Carlo Villamor said rescue workers resumed searching for the missing six. ■